Jack White is a twelve-time Grammy-winning musician, producer, and actor. He is best known for his work in the bands The White Stripes, The Raconteurs, The Dead Weather, and as a solo artist. In 2009 he also founded his own record label, Third Man Records.

Adrian Matejka was born in Nuremberg, Germany, and grew up in Indianapolis, Indiana. Matejka served as Poet Laureate of the state of Indiana in 2018–19, and he became the editor of Poetry magazine in 2022. Matejka is the author of several collections of poetry, including: Somebody Else Sold the World (Penguin, 2021), a finalist for the 2022 UNT Rilke Prize; Map to the Stars (Penguin, 2017); The Big Smoke (Penguin, 2013), winner of the 2014 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and a finalist for a National Book Award, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and a Pulitzer Prize in poetry; Mixology (Penguin, 2009), a winner of the 2008 National Poetry Series; and The Devil’s Garden (Alice James Books, 2003), winner of a New York / New England Award. His mixed media project Standing on the Verge & Maggot Brain, inspired by Funkadelic and created in collaboration with Nicholas Galanin and Kevin Neireiter, was published in 2021 by Third Man Books. His first graphic novel, Last On His Feet, was published in 2023 by Liveright.

dream hampton is an award-winning filmmaker and writer from Detroit. For three decades her essays and cultural criticism helped shape a generation. Her most recent works include the award-winning short film "Freshwater" (NYT OpDocs/PBS, 2023) and "Ladies First" (Netflix, 2023). Selected works include "Treasure" (Frameline, 2015), "Finding Justice" (BET, 2019), "It’s A Hard Truth Ain’t It" (HBO, 2019), and the Emmy-nominated "Surviving R. Kelly" (Netflix, 2019), which broke ratings records and earned her a Peabody Award. In 2019, hampton was named one of TIME 100's most influential people in the world.

Ben Blackwell is a drummer, journalist and record label executive. Originally from Detroit, Blackwell has been a member of the Dirtbombs since 1999, playing hundreds of live shows and on dozens of recordings. Blackwell’s writing has been featured in numerous books and publications and won him the 2004 Rolling Stone college journalism award. As an executive at Third Man Records in Nashville, he’s directly overseen the release of over 400 different titles and the pressing of over three million pieces of vinyl.